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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Drakares wrote: »
    Speaks volumes

    Before the rise of Islamic radicalism.jpeg

    What a simplistic sound-bite.

    The rise of radical Islam was precipitated by Afghanistan being used as a geopolitical football by the the West and USSR. Indeed some would argue that Afghanistan enjoyed one of its most peaceful and prosperous times under the auspices of the Soviet Union.
    The Soviet Union built an extensive amount of infrastructure, notably giving assistance building the Kabul University, Polytechnical institutes, hospitals, civilian infrastructure, power plants, and local schools. During the 1980s, Soviets established the universities in Blakhe, Herate, Takhar, Nangarhar and Fariyab provinces. The Russian faculty soon joined the universities, teaching Afghan students in proficient Russian languages.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan

    Radical Islamic movements were energized by the west and Saudi Arabia supplying vast sums of money and plenty of weapons and training.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Indeed some would argue that Afghanistan enjoyed one of its most peaceful and prosperous times under the auspices of the Soviet Union.

    More civilians died, in the hundreds of thousands, in that decade than the US war there between 2001 to present with millions of refugees to boot.

    It was anything but more peaceful, it was a slaughter house from all sides.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,368 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    Chernobyl power plant.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,653 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Off The Ball just put up this picture on Facebook. It's an old boxing photo that was recently restored with colour.
    Looks so gruesome.

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    Original here


    Just did some digging and apparently it's a boxing match between Ray Campbell and Dick Hyland, 3rd May 1913


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Nixon resigns, still the only US President ever to do so. He announced his resignation on this day in 1974, and resigned the following morning. Still a shocking moment in world politics.

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    Video here...



    Not earth shaking but iconic all the same this photo was taken on August 8th 1969.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    A bunch more colourised photos

    http://imgur.com/a/swVkB


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    This trend of adding colour to previously black and white images is brilliant and long may it continue.

    A 17-year-old Bill Clinton and then-President John F. Kennedy shaking hands in 1963.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    This came from a Rig Manager
    for Global Marine Drilling
    in St. Johns , Newfoundland ..
    They actually have to divert the path
    of these things away from the rig
    by towing them with ships!

    Anyway, in this particular case
    the water was calm and
    the sun was almost directly overhead
    so that the diver was able to get into the water
    and take this picture.

    They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    ^^ Not a real picture I'm afraid.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    ^^ Not a real picture I'm afraid.

    Bummer. Thought it looked very good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    That colorized Clinton photo is phenomenal. The detail in the hair is amazing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Yesterday at a beach in Mersa Matruh, Egypt

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  • Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    This week in Syria...
    Syrian activists have claimed that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad used chemical agents during attacks on rebel-held areas around Damascus.
    If confirmed, it would be by far the worst reported use of chemical weapons in the two-year civil war.
    An opposition monitoring group, citing figures compiled from medical clinics in the Damascus suburbs, put the death toll at 494.
    It said 90% of the people had been killed by gas, the rest by bombing and conventional arms.
    The rebel Syrian National Coalition said 650 people had been killed.
    Syrian opposition figure George Sabra said the death toll stands at 1,300.


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    :(


  • Site Banned Posts: 4,925 ✭✭✭Agueroooo


    Jesus Christ


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,136 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Chat deleted. Really not the thread for that discussion, and discussion was becoming heated. So stop it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,462 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie "Schindler's List".
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    August 23rd 1989, the Baltic Chain. Approximately two million people joined their hands to form one of the longest human chains in history spanning over 600 kilometres (370 mi) across the three Baltic states – Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR, and Lithuanian SSR, republics of the Soviet Union. It catalysed a movement that resulted in Lithuania declaring independence on March 11th 1990 and the subsequent break up of the Soviet Union.

    It might not seem much but it was just over 10 weeks after thousands were slaughtered in Tianamen Square and took place in a country that regularly incarcerated dissidents for decades. More info on the wiki page here.

    A good example of what peaceful protest can achieve.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Didn't shake the world or anything. I just found it to be a touching photo.

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his son, John Junior, at the White House:

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭theGEM


    Ted Kennedy leaves a party with a young woman Mary Jo in 1962. Kennedy crashes the car he was driving off a bridge and into the water. He subsequently flees the scene and leaves Mary Jo to drown as the tide came in. He did not seek any help or raise an alarm. They say she was alive for up to 2hrs in the car. Ted Kennedy was a US Senator from 1962 to 2009 (when he died).

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Photo that SHOULD shake the world.

    6 year old boy from China who was kidnapped & drugged before having his eyes gouged out so his cornea's could be extracted and sold on the human organ black market.

    Full Story
    http://news.sky.com/story/1133783/china-trafficker-gouges-out-boys-eyes

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Jesus Christ. That is one of the most horrific things I've ever heard. And I've seen and heard some horrific things in my day, but this one is right up there.

    That poor kid. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭returnNull


    I dont wanna live on this planet anymore


  • Registered Users Posts: 34,034 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Makes you realise that what you thought was a **** day in work/College for me really was nothing when hear stories like that..

    Poor kid. Heart goes out to him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭PickledLime


    ****kkkk...

    I actually feel physically sick reading that.

    That one human being could do that to another, even moreso to a defenceless child...

    There really are some subhuman vermin out there that deserve to be put down, the poor lad :mad: :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr




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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,653 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Omayra Sánchez Garzón was born on this day in 1972.

    Story here.

    It's beyond belief that help was not provided to save her in time.

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    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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